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This website provides information about the textbook "Fundamentals of Physics" by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker. It contains links to both student and teacher resources that are intended to be used along with the book and information about adopting the text.

I used it!

It has some great explanations and shows the long way of everything it is great if you are a why does this work person when you learn a new concept. I like being able to read through the proofs, personally. It also has awesome problems to work, that help prepare you for physics and real world application.

I also had this

It's a fair text. The best thing, for me, were the concept questions. As for the HW problems... *shrugs* They were okay. For some reason the authors (or author... Walker, I suspect) are obsessed with penguins.

The other good thing was the Interactive LearningWare. If your instructor didn't get it on CD, request it, because it's slow as Christmas online (even with broadband), but it's worth it. The stuff for optics was especially helpful.

The worked problems/examples in the book are sub-par. In general the problems are sort of obscure and irrelevent, and worst of all not helpful for the HW.

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